I just can’t stay away from the freakin’ hospital, can I?
Something’s gone wrong with my spirit (morale approaching zero).
This will be my last sort-of, better-than-nothing normalcy for some time. Monday we do all this preparation that’s been laid on hospital patients. Better get it right! No sleep will be allowed. And then, before Tuesday’s sun comes up, we have to pile into the car and drive to the hospital.
After that, they cut me open. Then they’ll keep me there for some days.
So if you don’t hear from me, it’s because I’ve been swallowed up by the vastness and complexity of JFK Hospital, like Jonah and the whale, and I don’t know when they’ll let me out again. I don’t know anything about colon surgery, and I wish the pleasure of finding out had been indefinitely postponed.
I certainly can’t blame you for feeling discouraged. You’ve been through a lot, this past year. They have surgery down to a fine science these days, and procedures which would have waylaid a person for weeks, in the past, are routinely performed on an outpatient basis, or maybe with a short hospital stay.
The thing they will be looking for, after surgery, will be signs of infection, so they will be taking your temperature frequently. This is a good thing, because they can handle infections much more easily if they know about it quickly. Once they are satisfied that you are past any risk of infection, they will probably send you home. Expect the best and you will probably be right.
Yes, they’ll probably keep me there several days. *Sigh* Can’t seem to stay out of the hospital.
Take it s day at a time. You’ll probably be pretty tired for the first day or two, so sleep as much as possible, and that time will fly. I would suggest that by the third day, you should start feeling better, day by day.
The waiting is the worst, isn’t it? But you’ll come through this just as you’ve come through all the others. Meanwhile, everyone here is covering you in prayer.
And that’s the coverage I need.
Covering you with prayer and pleading the blood of Christ over you that all goes well with the operation.
Thanks. The ordeal begins tomorrow.
Thank you!
It seems this will be the end of the ordeal, for everything else has been taken care of, and now, just one more hurdle to jump over or through, just a few more days to go. Have been praying.
Thanks, Mike. I have to get through today, tonight, and tomorrow.
That’s the way to handle it.